/ English Dictionary |
CROSSWIND
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("crosswind" is a kind of...):
air current; current of air; wind (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure)